The dead rise and all is well; except it’s not. I get what this is going for, believe me. But it’s extrapolating modernity as inherently poor against the rich cultural nesting spot of the past. This is pastoral propaganda rather than a dissection of the tension that exists contemporaneously between the time periods (something Robinson in Ruins does so successfully.) Aside from the grave scene- in all its folk horror splendour- this does little to whet my appetite. Archaic fetishisation and conservationist masticating.
The dead rise and all is well; except it’s not. I get what this is going for, believe me. But it’s extrapolating modernity as inherently poor against the rich cultural nesting spot of the past. This is pastoral propaganda rather than a dissection of the tension that exists contemporaneously between the time periods (something Robinson in Ruins does so successfully.) Aside from the grave scene- in all its folk horror splendour- this does little to whet my appetite. Archaic fetishisation and conservationist masticating.
